REL - Religion Courses

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REL 1 Topics in the Study of Religion
REL 1.01 What Matters
REL 1.02 Contemporary Religion
REL 1.03 Patterns of Religious Experience
REL 1.04 Beginnings and Ends of Time
REL 1.05 Religion and Gender
REL 1.06 Getting Religion
REL 1.07 Getting It: Sex and Religion
REL 1.08 The Religion of Things
REL 1.09 Religion and Drugs
REL 1.10 Religion and Social Struggle
REL 1.11 Sisters, Sages, Seekers: Women and Religion
REL 1.12 Race and Religion
REL 1.13 Sacred Movement
REL 2 Topics in the Religions of Southeast Asia
REL 2.01 Religions of Southeast Asia
REL 2.02 Religions of Vietnam
REL 3 Topics in Indigenous Religions
REL 3.01 Indigenous Religions in the Colonial Americas
REL 4 Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)
REL 5 Early Christianity: The New Testament
REL 6 Introduction to Judaism
REL 7 First-Year Seminars in Religion
REL 8.01 Transformative Spiritual Journeys. Contemporary Memoirs of African American Religion
REL 9 Hinduism
REL 10 The Religions of China
REL 11 Religion and Morality
REL 11.01 God and Money
REL 11.02 Modern Religious and Anti-Religious Thinkers
REL 12 Religion in North America
REL 13 Sports, Ethics & Religion
REL 14 Introduction to African Religions
REL 15 Christians, Christianity, Christendom: A History
REL 15.01 Other Christs: Introduction to Eastern Christianity
REL 16 Introductory Courses in the Islamic Religious Traditions
REL 16.01 An Introduction to Islam
REL 16.02 Modern Islam
REL 16.03 Islam in America
REL 16.04 Radical Islam: Jihadis, Salafīs, and Radical Reformists in the 20th and 21st Century
REL 16.05 The Qur'an and the Prophet
REL 16.06 Sufism: The Mystical Tradition of Islam
REL 16.07 Islam and Medicine from the Medieval to Modern Eras
REL 16.08 Shi`i Islam
REL 16.09 Magic, Miracles, and the Prophet Muhammad
REL 17 African Religions of the Americas
REL 18 Indian Buddhism
REL 19 Special Topics in Religion-Introductory Level
REL 19.03 Rethinking the Divine
REL 19.06 Modern Hinduism
REL 19.14 Cosmos, Justice, and Evil
REL 19.19 Religion and Technology
REL 19.20 Lost Books of the Bible
REL 19.22 Gender and Judaism
REL 19.23 Ecology, Ethics and Religion
REL 19.24 Ancient Magic and Religion
REL 19.25 Religions of the Caribbean
REL 19.26 Pentecostalism & Social Change
REL 19.27 Female Saints and ‘Feminine’ Spirituality
REL 19.29 Women and Religion in Japan
REL 19.31 Religions of Japan
REL 19.32 Shinto: Foundations, Festivals, and Fox Shrines
REL 19.33 Religion, Politics, and Secularism
REL 19.36 Putin's Sacred Reign
REL 19.37 After the Fall: The Faith of Modernist Poets
REL 19.38 Mythology of Otherworldly Journeys
REL 19.39 Auto/Biography Across Buddhist Traditions
REL 20.01 Classic Works in the Study of Religion
REL 20.02 Magic, Science, and Religion
REL 20.03 Reason and Religious Belief
REL 20.04 Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Myth: Interpreting Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
REL 20.05 What is Religion?
REL 20.06 Shamanism: The Agony and the Ecstasy
REL 20.07 Archaeologies of Religion
REL 20.08 Ethnography and Religion
REL 21 Religion and Western Thought
REL 21.01 Religion and Social Capital
REL 21.02 Gods and Kings
REL 21.03 Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
REL 22 Modern Judaism
REL 23 Jewish Mysticism
REL 24 Infinity and Ethics: Modern Jewish Mysticism and Philosophy
REL 28 Intermediate Courses in the Islamic Religious Traditions
REL 28.02 The Islam of Morocco
REL 28.03 Muslim Feminism
REL 28.04 Gender in Islam
REL 28.06 Medical Ethics and Islam
REL 28.07 Disease and Desire in Medieval Islam
REL 29 Modern Religion
REL 29.01 Religion in the Modern World
REL 29.02 Is God Back? Religion in Modern Europe
REL 30 Sacred Cities
REL 30.01 Sacred Cities: Rome
REL 30.02 Sacred Cities: Jerusalem
REL 31 Sex, Celibacy, and the Problem of Purity: Asceticism and the Human Body in Late Antiquity
REL 32 Topics in the Christian Tradition
REL 32.01 Christianity in Korea
REL 32.02 Into and Beyond Dante's Inferno -
REL 32.05 Second Vatican Council and its Theologians
REL 32.06 Jewish Views of Christianity
REL 32.07 Medieval Practices of Ascension
REL 32.08 Catholicism & Orthodoxy in the Americas
REL 32.09 Heresy and Authority
REL 33 Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Age of the Crusades
REL 34 Vikings, Celts, and Saxons: Medieval Christian Imagination of the Pagan Past
REL 35 Religion and Science
REL 37 Mountain Gods, Mummies and Messiahs: Religions of the Andes
REL 40 Topics in the Religions of South and Southeast Asia
REL 40.01 Gods, Demons, and Monkeys: The Ramayana Epic of India
REL 40.07 Hindus and Muslims in India
REL 40.08 Fear and Loathing in Religion: Contested Religious Belonging in South and Southeast Asia
REL 41 Topics in the Study of Buddhism
REL 41.01 Mahayana Buddhist Texts
REL 41.02 Buddhism and Film
REL 41.04 Buddhist Meditation Theory
REL 41.05 Tibetan Buddhism
REL 41.06 Buddhism in Korea and Japan: From Tribute Missions to Temple Tourism
REL 41.07 Buddhism, Sexuality, & Gender in Southeast Asia
REL 41.08 Buddhist Philosophy
REL 42 Goddesses of India
REL 43 Buddhism in America
REL 46 Daoism: Transformations of Tradition
REL 47 Buddhism in China
REL 48 Body and Sex in Chinese Religions
REL 49 Topics in East Asian Religions
REL 49.01 Apocalyptic Thought
REL 53 Religion, Healing, and Medicine
REL 54 African American Religion and Culture in Jim Crow America
REL 55 Ancient Egyptian Religion
REL 56 Women and the Bible
REL 57 Readings in the Biblical Tradition
REL 57.01 The End of the World
REL 57.02 The Jewish Jesus
REL 57.04 The Dead Sea Scrolls
REL 57.06 History of Heaven
REL 57.07 Apocalyptic Imagination
REL 58 Topics in the Bible and Archaeology
REL 58.01 Bible and Archaeology
REL 59 Topics in Comparative Religions
REL 59.01 Compassion: Religion, Giving, and Care
REL 60 Reformations: Protestant and Catholic
REL 61 Religion and the Civil Rights Movement
REL 62 Religion, Politics, and the Presidency
REL 63 Mormonism
REL 64 Evangelicalism
REL 66 Women, Religion and Social Change in Africa
REL 67 Religion And Imperialism
REL 69 Religion and World Politics
REL 70 Foreign Study in Religion I
REL 71 Foreign Study in Religion II
REL 74 Special Topics in Religion-Intermediate Level
REL 74.04 The Black Church and Black Bodies: Race, Sexuality and Class in Religious Culture
REL 74.07 Ritual in Post-Modern Great Britain
REL 74.09 Religious Minorities in Britain
REL 74.11 The English Bible
REL 74.12 Merchant of Venice: The Jew in the Protestant Imagination
REL 74.15 African Religions, Health, and Healing Traditions
REL 74.17 Islam in Africa
REL 74.18 Judaism and Ecology
REL 74.19 Islam in Diaspora: Colonial pasts and Decolonial Futures
REL 80 Seminars
REL 80.01 Prophetism in the Black World
REL 80.04 Sacred Time
REL 80.06 The Creation of "Buddhism"
REL 80.08 Maimonides
REL 80.09 Bible, Sex, and Sexuality
REL 80.10 Messengers of God: Prophetism in Historical and Comparative Perspective
REL 80.11 Modern Black Spiritualities
REL 80.12 Religions on the Silk Road
REL 81 Dickinson Distinguished Scholar Seminar
REL 81.04 Buddho-Daoism: Religious Competition and Interaction in Traditional China
REL 82 Joint Research in Religious Studies
REL 83 Independent Study in Religion
REL 84 Advanced Independent Study in Religion
REL 85.01 Senior Colloquium
REL 85.02 Senior Colloquium for Honors Program
REL 87 Honors

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